Community Outreach

At St. Bonaventure Mission, each day brings renewed commitment to ensure that each and every one of God's children here on the Eastern Navajo Reservation is able to meet their daily survival needs and maintain their dignity.

Through our outreach programs we provide direct, often life-sustaining, assistance to the Navajo people including water, food, clothing, home repair, housing assistance, and home visitation services.

The Mission is often the last, best hope for our Navajo brothers and sisters as they struggle to maintain health and wellness amidst poverty and survive the hardships of daily life on the Eastern Navajo Nation.

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We Work For Our Community

St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School has provided love, support and hope for a better life to the Navajo (Diné) through the generosity of all those who have shared their prayers, resources or time.

Together, we complete a 'Circle of Love' that bears witness to God's constant love and represents a future that offers great promise.

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St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School is located in Thoreau, NM, a rural area on the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation. Thoreau sits at an altitude of about 7,200 feet, five miles east of the continental divide and about 110 miles west of Albuquerque between Grants and Gallup. More than 80 percent of Thoreau's population of nearly 4,500 is Native American.The Navajo Nation covers an area of 27,000 square miles in three southwestern states (New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) and is three times larger than the state of Vermont. The eastern portion of the Navajo Nation is located in the vast, arid, high desert region of northwestern New Mexico.

St. Bonaventure Indian School is a private, Catholic school located at the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, NM. The school is one of the ministries of St. Bonaventure Indian Mission which serves the Diné of the area.

The school enrolls approximately 200+ students annually from preschool through grade eight, more than 90 percent of whom live at, near or below the poverty level.

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St. Bonaventure Indian School is a private, Catholic school located at the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, NM. The school is one of the ministries of St. Bonaventure Indian Mission which serves the Diné of the area.